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  • Title: [Industrial sound spectrum entailing noise-induced occupational hearing loss in Iasi industry].
    Author: Carp CM, Costinescu VN.
    Journal: Rev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi; 2011; 115(3):801-5. PubMed ID: 22046790.
    Abstract:
    UNLABELLED: In European Union every day millions of employees are exposed to noise at work and the risk this can entail. AIM: this study presents the sound spectrum in Iasi heavy industry: metal foundries industry, punching and embossing of metal sheets, cold and hot metal processing. MATERIAL AND METHODS: it was used a type 2 Sound Level Meter (SLM) and the considered value was the average value over 10 test values in 10 consecutive days for each octave band in common audible frequency range. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS: It is obviously that the large values of sound intensities in the most of frequency octave band exceed maximum admissible and legal values. CONCLUSIONS: The study reveals the necessity of hardware, medical and managerial measures in order to reduce the occupational noise and to prevent the hearing acuity damage of the workers.
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